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On my norwegian keyboard i just press the \ button, it's easy for me
And I agree with this:

\ is already used in PB for structures, so why introduce anothe way to do the same?

then use a dutch keyboard, it has it all

I wonder how many folks will type keys that are close to the "\" key instead.

I have long fingers and I still fumble for that "\" key at times. Folks with shorter fingers may not fare as well.

FWIW

Well, the key we end up using is trivial so long as it is added to PB. It should be a key that all of us can use easily. One that is preferably not already being used for something else!

_ (underscore) or ~ (tilde) or { or } or ` (single apostrophe) or if those are not acceptable, maybe a modification of one we already use:

## or %% or :: or something similar.

Some languages have a PATH variable that is used in this way (although it's usually used in long file paths: PATH = "c:/programs/pb/examples/test" etc. and then every reference to a file is added to that string until PATH = "" is encountered to reset back to default (current directory).

Russell

don't recall but i'm pretty sure fred said something about macros, if they are in, you'd be able to replace \ with what you like

and if you don't like it, you could still write a little preprocessor that would change the \ symbol into something else before compiled, the new ide allows things like that

with finnish keyboard i need to hit altGR+? but it is fine by me... i dont want the syntax to get changed just like that because less than 20ppl here at forums does request for it...


edit: next thing you are asking is -> because its also used on other languages etc. PureBasic is PureBasic and i guess Fred didnt even think when creating the syntax to copy other languages...

[Poor Humor Moment Begins]

We really may have to (cough, chuckle) look into a big green button that USB connects to our computers. We can just use our nose to activate such. Really, the more I think about this I believe it will work great! I can lap up my dinner and at the same time get with it!

[/Poor Humor Moment Ends]

totally off topic and thread stealing but...

re poor (let's not talk about humour ) does anyone know how difficult it is to use electronics and hook stuff up to the usb? like custom keyboards or similar stuff?